| 1867 - 830 pages
...justice overtake us : we wait for light, but behold obscurity ; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night: we are in desolate places as dead men." This then is the general... | |
| James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 482 pages
...overtake us : we wait for light, but behold obscurity ; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. i0 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes : we stumble at noon day as in the night ; we are in desolate places as dead men. u We roar all like bears,... | |
| Christoph Christian Sturm - 1867 - 660 pages
...peaceful boldness to quit the world with faith in Thee. JANUARY 12. NOW DO WE SEE THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes, — Isaiah lix. 10. Yes, so it is, — darkness everywhere over the earth ! How little do I know the... | |
| Luis (de Granada.) - 1869 - 384 pages
...Isaiah, saying, " We wait for light, but behold obscurity ; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes : we stumble at noon-day as in the night ; we are in desolate places as dead men." (Isa. lix. 9, 10.) Wouldst... | |
| John Henry Newman - 1869 - 452 pages
...world ? where that awful worship, which struck fear into every soul? And what is the consequence ? " We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes ; we stumble at noonday as 1 An allusion was here intended to the then recent appointment (18.11) of an... | |
| 1871 - 624 pages
...about, those wretched Egyptians; and there is a passage in Isaiah which speaks for them, as it were — "We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes ; we stumble at noon-day as in the night ; we are in desolate places as dead men," ch. lix. 10. For three... | |
| Jonathan b. Uzziel - 1871 - 254 pages
...wait for light, but behold, darkness ; for brightness, but behold, we are walking in obscurity. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes : we stumble at noonday as those that stumble in the dark ; it is shut up before us, as the graves are shut... | |
| Edward N. Marks - 1871 - 126 pages
...Lord is with us ? — Jer. viii. 8. 520. The pen of the scribes is in vain. — Jer. viii. 8. 521. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes. — Is. lix. 10. 522. For this our heart is faint ; for these things our eyes are dim. — Lam. v.... | |
| Isaiah (the prophet.) - 1872 - 118 pages
...overtake us : we wait for light, but behold obscurity ; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night ; we are in desolate places as dead men. r1 We roar all like bears,... | |
| George Burgess, Benjamin Fiske Barrett - 1872 - 238 pages
...of the prophet: " We wait for light, but behold obscurity ; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes ; we stumble at noon-day as in the night ; we are in desolate places as dead." One of its ablest ministers,... | |
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